Tuber is a Lagotto Romagnolo, bred and trained to find truffles, and she's on the hunt in a 10-acre truffle orchard in Sonoma County, California, owned by Kendall-Jackson winery. Kendall-Jackson's truffle program currently uses contract truffle dogs for its harvests (like Tuber and Bella, pictured here with their trainer and owner Fran of Angerer Alexander Valley Truffle Co.) but plans to invest in its own. This season, which began in mid-December 2019 and will most likely be over by mid-March, is the third year that Kendall-Jackson has brought dogs like Tuber to its orchard—adjacent to 80 acres of pinot, merlot and other grapes—to search for the black truffles (tuber melanosporum) the late Jess Jackson, Kendall-Jackson's founder, first planted in 2011.

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